Heart diseases are among the most important causes of mortality in the world, especially in industrial countries. Using heart sounds and the features extracted from them are among the non-aggressive diagnosis and prognosis methods for heart diseases. In this study, the time-scale, Cepstral, frequency, temporal and turbulence features are saved and extracted from the heart sounds, and then they ...

More clinical trials in pulmonary hypertension (PH) are being conducted in developing countries now compared with the past. This is a welcome development, considering the rarity of the disease, with its limited treatment options and poor prognosis. Conducting clinical trials in the developing world potentially decreases the time and costs of drug development and provides access to new drugs to ...

As in many other developing countries, conditions that may foster antibiotic resistance in Mexico differ from developed countries, and so resistance prevalence. Fecal pollution and other traits of overcrowded, poor cities, might create ideal settings for selecting, exchanging and maintaining resistance traits. Medical abuse of antibiotics, along with low-quality drugs, are also present as in ma...

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This paper develops a conceptual framework resulting in an alternative method for selecting principal variables for computing a Water Poverty Index (WPI) at the national scale. To this end, a principal components variable selection strategy is applied to the 2002 data obtained for 147 countries on five key components resource, access, capacity, use, and environment compiled by Keele University....

The challenges involved in conducting epidemiologic studies of cancer in developing countries can be and often are unique. This article reports on our experience in performing a case-control study of invasive cervical cancer in four Latin American countries (Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama), the summary medical results of which have been published in a previous issue of this journal (1...

172 Abstract: E-municipality is the use of ICT to transform local government by making it more accessible, effective, efficient and accountable at local level. This ranges from providing wider access to government information and promoting civic engagement and providing development opportunities. Selecting and applying a suitable model for emunicipality implementation is essential. This model s...